US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 8 for "Information processing apparatus and information processing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,997, issued on July 8, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus and information processing method" was invented by Yuka Ariki (Tokyo) and Takuya Narihiri (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an information processing apparatus including a learning unit that learns a heuristic function related to a path search by using a convolutional neural network. The learning unit includes a first convolutional neural network that outputs a first feature value based on an environment map, and a second convolutional neural network that outputs a second feature value related to an internal state of a se...